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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded by crystal-clear ocean live some of the most plastic-contaminated…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Distinct clawed footprints found on a slab of 356 million-year-old rock from Australia suggest that reptile…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Federal regulators have given SpaceX the green light for another test flight of Starship, the most powerful…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Clownfish, a small orange and white species made famous by the “Finding Nemo” movies, have been found to shrink in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When a fossil preserves an animal’s complete body in a death pose, seeing it is observing a snapshot in…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Ten gold bracelets, 17 cigar cases, a powder compact, a comb, and a whopping 598 gold coins: The items are all part…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Sometime between today and 200 years from now, scientists say “the big one” will hit the United States. There…

By Marlowe Starling, CNN (CNN) — At first, behavioral ecologist Zoë Goldsborough thought the small figure seen on the back of a capuchin…

By Laura Paddison, Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — Last summer, an abandoned factory in southwest Memphis got a new life courtesy of the world’s…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Climate change should be considered a new core aspect of creditworthiness when prospective home buyers apply…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — With the help of more than five dozen fossils, paleontologists have uncovered a tiny three-eyed predator…

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Beneath the rough waters of South Australia’s coast, marine archaeologists say they have discovered the lost…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Flooding on the US Northeast coast has risen significantly as a critical network of Atlantic Ocean currents…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of obsidian artifacts have revealed where the Aztecs acquired the volcanic glass they used for…

By Stephanie Elam, CNN (CNN) — The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum…

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from…

By Marlowe Starling, CNN (CNN) — A research team in China got creative in its efforts to save a critically endangered species by turning to…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A biologist tracking whales in the Norwegian fjords, a vast telescope pictured below breathtaking skies and a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — May’s full moon, known by its popular nickname as the flower moon to signify the many blossoms of spring,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes, a great find is hiding right beneath one’s nose in the humblest of places: on paper.…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A Soviet-era spacecraft that was designed to make a soft landing on Venus — but instead remained trapped in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday its well-known “billion-dollar weather…

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Things are heating up hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon, where a large undersea volcano is showing…

By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Crashing waves, glistening sea spray, a calm expanse of deep blue. These are the images that open “Ocean with…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An island 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is home to a unique and celebrated…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The direct ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex would have arrived in North America after crossing a land bridge from Asia,…

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author…

By Annie Grayer, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is preparing to eliminate two key Environmental Protection Agency divisions…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A piece of a Soviet vehicle that malfunctioned en route to Venus more than 50 years ago is due to crash back to…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For many people, the term “mummy” usually brings to mind images of Egyptian sarcophagi. But the history…

CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Eta Aquariid meteor shower has reached its peak — and you’ll need to get up early to see this…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have been trying to determine the cosmic origins of the heaviest elements, like gold, for…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Only days after the Trump administration dismissed authors of a congressionally mandated climate report, two of…

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Ella Nilsen, Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration filed lawsuits against four states Thursday in an…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Stored in a church crypt in a remote Alpine village, a set of unusually well-preserved human remains has long been a…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Glimmering, deep-blue solar panels carpet rooftops in Pakistan’s largest cities and dot the perimeters of…

By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by…

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Living in a house made of fungi and bacteria may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers are…

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — A newly released image of the sun captured by the world’s largest solar telescope shows the surface of our…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has dismissed all the scientists and other authors working on the next authoritative…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A batch of Amazon satellites hitched a ride to low-Earth orbit, marking the biggest stride yet in the tech…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An invisible molecular cloud that could shed light on how stars and planets form has been detected surprisingly…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Legends of young heroes fighting lions to the death appear in Roman records and artwork, but scant physical…

By Morgan Severson, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — A family of seven recently overstayed their welcome at a swanky, boutique hotel in Atlanta’s trendy…

By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — About 50 million years ago, a small bird waded along a lakeshore in what today is central Oregon. A worm…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The head of the US National Science Foundation, a $9 billion agency charged with advancing discoveries across…

By Ella Nilsen, Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry –…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration canceled the lease for its top climate monitoring lab, located in New York City, as of…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An almost overlooked fossil discovered in a Brazilian museum collection has revealed the oldest ant specimen known…

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Archaeologists working at a site in south Wales have uncovered dozens of skeletons – mostly women – which…

By Fred He and Sophia Saifi, CNN (CNN) — A Pakistani astronaut will become the first foreign national aboard China’s Tiangong space station,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A skeleton recovered from an intriguing Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A massive, extinct reptile that once snacked on dinosaurs had a broad snout like an alligator’s, but it owed its…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration quietly released key climate change data last week that has historically been…

By Kameryn Griesser and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After months without a meteor shower, sky-gazers now have a reason to keep their chins…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When astronomers search for evidence of life beyond Earth, what signs are they seeking? Would clues be traced…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When a new comet appears in the sky, there is often excitement. But things don’t always end well for the…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers say they have uncovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought,…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Personal Birth date: January 3, 2003 Birth…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A team of astronomers have detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have captured the first confirmed footage of the elusive colossal squid in its natural environment…

CNN, SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — Even though I suffer from trypanophobia (an overwhelming fear of needles), I received the…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration in the case that alleged fraud in a Biden-era clean energy…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Colorful auroras could be visible in areas of the United States on Wednesday evening due to a solar storm,…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Hatched in quiet streams and rivers, salmon undertake a perilous journey to reach the open ocean where they…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Using a speck of mouse brain matter the size of a grain of sand, scientists have created the first precise,…

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — Professor Suzannah Williams wishes she didn’t have to spend her days analyzing poop samples. It’s a dirty…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An intriguing object my husband and I saw during our honeymoon was the Robenhausen door at Switzerland’s…

By Kameryn Griesser and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sharp-eyed lunar lovers may notice April’s full moon looks smaller than usual this…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration intends to eliminate the research arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — It’s a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful spring…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A fossilized jawbone dredged up by a fishing net from the seafloor 15 ½ miles (25 kilometers) off the coast of…

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s pick to run NASA, Jared Isaacman, made waves Wednesday by signaling his intention…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s pick to run NASA, Jared Isaacman, made waves Wednesday by signaling his intention to…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A new documentary reveals the incredible results of a project to create 3D underwater scans of the doomed ocean liner…

CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s America-first economic agenda is reinvigorating the manufacturing…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — As the world’s appetite for computers, smartphones and other electronic devices grows ever bigger, the other…

By Stephanie Elam, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Along some 70 miles of Southern California coastline, usually curious and playful sea lions are…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A newly uncovered ancient Egyptian tomb is shedding light on royalty that once ruled the region over 3,600 years…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX is wrapping up the latest chapter in its commercial human spaceflight endeavors with the return of Fram2.…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Today, the view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya is of endless sandy dunes and barren rock, but…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon…